Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 14:04, Adrian Levi a écrit : > I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop > to eventually wipe and install linux.
You dont have to use a temporary file. You can try the following : - NewLaptop : create partitions (ie hda1 for /boot and hda2 for /) - NewLaptop : create the filesystems on the partitions (mke2fs /dev/hda1 ; mke2fs /dev/hda3 ) - NewLaptop : mount the filesystems on /mnt as they will be (mount /dev/hda2 /mnt; mkdir /mnt/boot ; mount /dev/hda1/ /mnt/boot) - NewLaptop : run the following command to copy all the files ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "tar cjf - --exclude lost+found --exclude /proc --exclude /sys /" | (cd /mnt ; tar xvjf - ; mkdir proc sys) - NewLaptop : chroot in /mnt (chroot /mnt) - NewLaptop : mount /proc - NewLaptop : install GRUB or LILO on the MBR (grub-install /dev/hda; update-grub) - NewLaptop : umount /proc - NewLaptop : umount the filesystems (umount /mnt/boot; umount /mnt) - NewLaptop : reboot It SHOULD work PS: The transfert might be twice compressed : one time with the tar's "j" option and a second time by ssh Fanfan -- http://www.cerbelle.net - http://www.afdm-idf.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
